The Middle Ages

The Middle Ages

Pastons

they knew that the knights could have gone a rampage and killed people

they had survived the civil war, the plague

had to surrender their castle to the Duke of Northfolk

The War of Roses was going to happen somewhere else

A report of the king's renunciation is read in front of the Parliament

Probably starved to death

Richard was placed in prison

Ireland is a fatal distraction

The King Gives a Speech

Continue to fight and we will kill you

Remain loyal and we will spare you

Only the king is left standing

All the people kneel

They are all spared

Rebels attack London

King is not sure that he will survive

Prays that night

The rebels have London in ruins

Children became rich/valuable

'Twas hard to find work on the ground

hard to come by

Could inherit the land of their parents

14,000 people died in Dublin alone

They tried to find a way to make a remedy for the plague

if they couldn't keep it down, then you would surely die

If the people could keep it down, the person would live

If you touched the sick or dead you became sick and died

Apocalyptic famine in 1915

the improbable had happened and they had survived through it all

They knew that if they prayed they would survive

letters of Northfolk

"No one ever saw a season worse than this"

famers, lawyers, or social risers

Henry the fifth died of dysentry

Couldn't prevent the bloody war after Richard was dethroned

leaves you feeling slightly numbed

War of the Roses

Richard settles the score with his "enemies"

Very doubtful and paranoid

He replaces them with "yes" men

He has earls and dukes murdered

Even his own uncle

Richard learns that his allies have switched sides

Sneaks across the country as a priest

Slaves want equality

We shouldn't be treated as a lesser person

We are all descended from Adam and Eve

Go to the King

Peasants Revolt

Taxes are too high, not fair

It was men with something to lose

Made little money

Peasants didn't actually start the revolt

Half the population was dead

First wave : 300 people died a day

the bodies would be carted away

early mornings of black death

The people with weak immune systems

Peasant take advantage of the Black Plague

Get more land so their kids can have better education